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JustNobody

Thomas

Doesn’t surprise me that liberals cannot face the truth when confronted with FACTS. Although I think Fox 8 (which is not owned by News Corp. as is Fox News Channel) leans left in its reporting overall, I commend Bob Buckley for this objective, critical view of a very misleading, agenda-driven ad.

FaithC

Thomas – I did not make the comment. I do know you like to make comments under my name an then you reply to them. You are one sick sorry lonely person.
Don’t deny it we all know you do it under my name and others.

Roger

Both partys are the blame.And if you look back 15 years who was head of Duke Engery. Both partys what to take shortcuts in plans and pass the expense on to the comsumers. As long has this goes on it will get worse.If they had look at this long ago then this may not would have happen. But right now neither party whats to take the blame so they pass it on to the comsumer.

Thomas

As a registered independent, I am dismayed that a politically-driven group would jump on the chance to hammer Gov. McCrory in such a shameful, partisan fashion so soon after the coal ash disaster when all the facts are yet to be seen. For instance, state regulators who were supposed to be inspecting coal ash ponds failed to inspect the drainage pipes that are the focus of the contamination of the Dan River during the state’s routine examinations of these facilities in 2009 and 2012. Since those inspections occurred during the administration of Democratic governor Beverly Perdue, why aren’t we seeing negative ads by the NRDC attacking her when such environmental negligence took place under her watch? When such “environmental groups” as the NRDC, and our local Dan River Basin Association, turn out to be nothing more than left-wing, political activist organizations that push a radical ecological agenda, it is hard to take such groups seriously.

dewey

If the State had Inspected the Drainage Pipes they could have prevented this Catastrophe, as Thomas has already stated & the fact is they knew about it years ago & didn’t act on it….remember, the Democrats have been in Power in Raleigh for 100 years before the election of 2012, so, there is NO way the Blame can be laid on The Governor, more then likely it should be Purdue’s fault & her Democratic Cronies that Didn’t really care whether there was a spill or not, they all make Big Bucks in those Departments & there should be an Outside Investigation into WHO is Responsible & lay the Blame on the Real Culprits & Not just believe a Liberal oriented Group like the NRDC.that is based in Washington DC, the root of all evil……

foursiegs@mac.com

For those of you interested in how coal ash has been regulated since the 1980s, go to http://www.epa.gov/wastes/nonhaz/industrial/special/fossil/regs.htm and read the reports. You will find that the federal government knew of the seepage problems and they had already dealt with a more serious incident as early as 1988. Despite this, they allowed disposal of coal ash in unlined landfills. I am not a fan of the governor, but this was not his fault. Thirty+ years of lax federal and state regulation and an agency that still is unable to produce a final rule on the classification of coal ash waste. Republicans and Democrats alike on the federal and state levels share the blame for this awful problem.